working class (redirected from Working classes)

working class

n.

The socioeconomic class consisting of people who work for wages, especially low wages, including unskilled and semiskilled laborers and their families.

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working-class (wûrkng-kls) adj.

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working class

n

(Sociology) Also called proletariat the social stratum, usually of low status, that consists of those who earn wages, esp as manual workers Compare lower class, middle class, upper class

adj working-class

(Sociology) of, relating to, or characteristic of the working class

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

working class - a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" labor, labour, proletariat social class, socio-economic class, stratum, class - people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class" labor force, labor pool - the source of trained people from which workers can be hired lumpenproletariat - (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement organized labor - employees who are represented by a labor union prole, proletarian, worker - a member of the working class (not necessarily employed); "workers of the world--unite!"

Translations

working class n → classe f operaia or lavoratrice

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working class n → classe f operaia or lavoratrice